It didn’t feel like an hour, but that’s how long inaugural guest Couch Baron and I blathered on about baseball in the first episode of The Squared Up Podcast. I’ll have a better handle on the length (and the Garage Band editing tools) in future episodes.

We just missed the MVP announcements, but TSUP #1’s lineup includes the Cy Young and Manager of the Year awards; the Jeter contract negotiations; poor styling choices of the ’80s; Zoolander; Colonel Kurtz; baseball boyfriends; Fire(d) Joe Morgan; the Luis Sojo SPF 4 Plaque; that (Terry) Collins chap is losing it; and more!

[podcast format=”video”]https://tomatonation.com/media/SquaredUp1Final.m4a[/podcast]

Couch Baron, a.k.a. John Ramos, is a film producer and writer living in Los Angeles. He recently produced a film called East Fifth Bliss starring Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall. He writes for Television Without Pity and also on his own blog, Pull Up A Chair. You can follow him on Twitter (and get updates on his film).

You know me: I’m Sarah D. Bunting, and I enjoy picking fights about snacks, showing no respect for Sandy Alderson at this difficult time, and running that Dave Stieb joke into the ground.

I can’t wait to read your comments, discussion topics, guest requests, and sputtery defenses of Moneyball — bunting at tomatonation dot com.

Coming off the bench:

• Adrian Gonzalez
• Andre Dawson
• Baseball Today
• The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
• Craig Calcaterra
• Fire Joe Morgan
• Jeter v. Strasberg
• Jim Leyritz
• Margaret Cho
• Tommy Craggs
• The Ugly Baseball Card Blog
• and King Curtis with the TSUP theme song

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